Once you have downloaded the plugins and installed them, one of the cool things you can do is to make text around an image. This works great if you want a round image like the avatars on Google Plus. Of course you can make text in a complete 360 or just make an ark over part of the image.

Here is an easy to follow How To Make Text Around an Image using Paint.net

Sheryl just put together a video on one of the most basic things you can do on paint.net. As amazing as it seems people still don't know how to do this to their images, or just don't do it. This little extra step is critical to your page load speed for SEO.